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Transocean Ltd. is an American drilling company. [2] It is the world's largest offshore drilling contractor based on revenue and is based in Vernier, Switzerland. The company has offices in 20 countries, including Canada, the United States, Norway, United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. [3]
Steven L. Newman (born c. 1964) is an American businessman. [1] [2] He served as the president and chief executive (CEO) of Transocean [1] [2] until February 16, 2015.He was the CEO of the company when it’s offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico experienced a catastrophic failure in the Deepwater Horizon incident.
Transocean DC-4. Known for the first few months of its existence as Orvis Nelson Air Transport (or ONAT), Transocean Air Lines was a supplemental air carrier, a type of US airline defined and regulated by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the now defunct Federal agency that, from 1938 to 1978, tightly regulated almost all US commercial air transportation.
Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig [7] owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On April 20, 2010, while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. [8]
The Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill resulted in an onslaught of litigation. Litigation commenced almost immediately after the explosion and oil spill. By May 27, 2010, Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon, said in testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee that it was defendant in 120 lawsuits, of which more than 80 were class actions seeking payment for financial ...
Transocean News Service (also Trans-Ocean News Service) was a wireless German news agency headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It was closed by the Allied occupation government after the German capitulation in May 1945. The agency was founded in 1914 in response to Britain ’s cutting of transatlantic cables to Germany during the World War I.
Employees. 814 (31 March 2023) [2] Website. www.jal.co.jp /jta. Japan Transocean Air (JTA) is an airline based in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. [3] It operates domestic services on behalf of Japan Airlines. Its main base is Naha Airport. [4] From 1967 until 1993, the airline was known as Southwest Air Lines.
Paul B. Loyd Jr. Paul B. Loyd Jr. (born 1946) is an American businessman. [1][2] From 1997 to 2001, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of the R&B Falcon Corporation, the world's largest offshore drilling company, until it merged with Transocean. [1][2] Transocean has named a semi-submersible after him. [3]